Posted by dancingstar on January 26, 2005, at 0:40:39
In reply to Re: Some Positive Studies of Effexor XR~, posted by FaithT on January 26, 2005, at 0:19:58
The reason that I don't find the 12-week studies to be as valuable as, for example, studies that last for six months or one year is because many of the problems that people have with Effexor don't tend to show in the first few months.
Some, of course, do. Those people know that they are having trouble with the drug and hopefully stop taking it. Other people don't develop problems until they have been taking Effexor for six months and longer, which is why those of us that say that the problems are slow and silent are so concerned. Mostly people can't see or feel the problems as they happen.
For some reason it has been harder for me to locate studies lasting longer than 12 weeks.
I haven't personally seen data for people taking Effexor over one year. Most interesting of all would be the data for two and three years because I believe that is the highest period so far of off-lable use of Effexor.
poster:dancingstar
thread:446637
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20050124/msgs/447879.html